This is a brief summary of bugs fixed between Ubuntu 8.04.2 and 8.04.3. This summary covers only changes to packages in "main" and "restricted", which account for all packages in the officially-supported CD images; there are further changes to various packages in "universe" and "multiverse". Some of these fixes were by Ubuntu developers directly, while others were by upstream developers and backported to Ubuntu. For full details, see the individual package changelogs.

In addition to the bugs listed below, this update includes all security updates from the Ubuntu Security Notice list affecting Ubuntu 8.04 LTS that were released up to and including July 6, 2009. The last updates included were USN-796-1 (Pidgin vulnerability) and USN-797-1 (tiff vulnerability).

Top bugs

These changes address very high-profile issues, usually with many reports.

fix crash on selecting non-ASCII options in the "Use as:" menu while creating a partition

Upgrade bugs

These changes fix a variety of upgrade issues, some of which relate to upgrades from previous releases of Ubuntu to this release, and some of which smooth the way for future upgrades to later releases of Ubuntu.

add versioned dependency on xfonts-utils (>= 1:1.0.1-2ubuntu1) so that distribution upgrades from 6.06 don't bail on a version of update-fonts-dir(8) that doesn't recognize the X11R7 fonts directory semantics

Hardware support bugs

Considerable work has been done in Ubuntu 8.04.3 on improving support for many specific items of hardware.

disable the ability to create a new user whose name is owned by a previously defined group, which, if allowed to happen, would overwrite the old group. If this happened to 'admin', for example, it would render any system administration by sudoers impossible